Galaxy

Galaxy is a platform for FAIR data analysis which supports the building and execution of workflows. It has a broad user community spanning many domains, as well as a large collection of training resources contained within the Galaxy Training Network.

Galaxy can import and export RO-Crates for both regular datasets (following the base RO-Crate specification) and workflow executions (following the Workflow Run Crate profile). The European Galaxy instance uses RO-Crate as its export format by default.

The Galaxy platform also has integrations with the WorkflowHub workflow registry, RDM repositories such as InvenioRDM and Zenodo, and Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) providers such as eLabFTW and RSpace (related use cases: WorkflowHub, Electronic Lab Notebooks).

The Galaxy Training Network includes multiple hands-on RO-Crate tutorials as part of the FAIR Data, Workflows and Research topic. Further domain-specific training material is available for RO-Crate in earth science and Annotated Research Contexts (ARCs) in plant science (ARCs are a profile of RO-Crate used in the DataPLANT project).

Resources

• Galaxy Project homepage
• RO-Crate tutorials in the Galaxy Training Network

Funding

The integration of RO-Crate features into Galaxy was funded by the EuroScienceGateway project. Development of training material was funded by BY-COVID, EuroScienceGateway, DataPLANT, and the German Research Foundation.

Publications

The Galaxy Community (2024): The Galaxy platform for accessible, reproducible, and collaborative data analyses: 2024 update. Nucleic Acids Research 52(W1) https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkae410